Walter's Weblog: OPML Edition

Bloglines blogroll import howto

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:49:01 GMT

Ok going to try this in outline format. Might be useful to anyone who wants to import their bloglines blogroll into their OPML blog as I have done.

First you'll need to start a blogroll listing in the OPML editor.

Second you'll need to export your feeds into OPML format. There are two ways to do this

Then open that file that you just downloaded in a text editor.

Now you'll need to open the OPML editors' blogroll file.

Now switch to the bloglines export file and copy all of the text in the underneath the outline tag with the title of Subscriptions.

Switch back to the blogroll.opml file and paste what you just copied under the body tag but before the /body tag.

Now use wordpads find and replace function to find and replace the following text:

Now try opening you blogroll again

Cool? I bet there's an easier way to do it.. I tried using the OPML Conversions-->Convert Bloglines file.. it took the names of the blogs but not the links.. atleast not in the way I was expecting it to.

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:57:50 GMT

Just wanted to say that hitting SHIFT+BACKSPACE in the editor is no fun at all. No. Fun. At All. Apparently it's something I do often for whatever reason. Go figure.

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:37:06 GMT

Still don't have the whole hang of this yet, but it's certainly fun! Good job Dave!

Bloglines blogroll import by hand

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:28:44 GMT

Ahh! Now that I've figured out how to make new posts appear ahead of older posts I'd like to comment that importing Bloglines subscription OPML files for your blogroll simply involves editing your OPML blog's blogroll file, copying/pasting in the OPML from bloglines and then mass finding/replacing a few bits of code to make the code work. As you can see, it was worth it.

Now, to make it auto update I'm sure I could have just used their blogroll html codelet, but there's probably a way to extract the OPML automatically into this list on this blog here.

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:30:06 GMT

Hmm. I wonder if I can use this to build OPML shownotes for K9Cast.